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Ohio State vs. Minnesota: Why PJ Fleck Is So Impressed With Matt Patricia's Defense · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: of news before we get into the meat of today's show,
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Speaker 1: and that is that next weekend's game against Illinois, currently
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Speaker 1: eleven days away, that game is going to kick off
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Speaker 1: at noon Eastern on Fox. Ohio State fans never big
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Speaker 1: fans of the noon kickoffs at home on the road,
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Speaker 1: not nearly as big of an issue, I'm guessing.
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Speaker 2: So there you go.
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Speaker 1: Noon kickoff next weekend against the Illinois Fighting ALIGNI in Champagne.
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Speaker 1: This weekend, it's a home game. It is going to
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Speaker 1: be a seven to thirty pm Eastern kick on NBC.
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Speaker 1: Buckeyes and the Minnesota Golden Gophers for homecoming weekend at
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Speaker 1: Ohio State. A lot to look forward to there. One
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Speaker 1: of the things to look forward to is we get
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Speaker 1: a chance to do a show where you get to
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Speaker 1: hear from Pjfleck, one of the big tens most I
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Speaker 1: don't know, just most characters, biggest characters, whatever you want
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Speaker 1: to call him, he is definitely one of them. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna have another one of them next week with Brett
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Speaker 1: Beelham up. But this week it is PJ. Fleck and
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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Golden Gophers coming to Columbus. So you're gonna
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Speaker 1: get to hear a little bit from Fleck at his
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Speaker 1: press conference on Monday. In case you were busy watching
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Speaker 1: Ohio State, Ohio State's game against Washington or some of
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Speaker 1: the other big games of the week, you may have
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Speaker 1: missed this. Minnesota had their biggest home comeback win in
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Speaker 1: thirty years on Saturdayay comeback came back from a fourteen
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Speaker 1: to nothing second quarter deficit to beat the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. So,
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Speaker 1: all right, PJ. Fleck, what are your thoughts on the
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Speaker 1: biggest home comeback win for the Gophers in three decades?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think that, you know, when we talk about this,
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Speaker 3: this courage piece. We'll get to that in the details
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Speaker 3: after that, but the courage pieces and thoughts and ideas
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Speaker 3: and actions without knowing the outcome, right, and.
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Speaker 2: You're down fourteen nothing.
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Speaker 3: I thought our coaches did a really good job as
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Speaker 3: shifting and not just shifting completely and throwing out your
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Speaker 3: old game plan, but the game plan, you know, seventy
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Speaker 3: hours a week to come up with what you'd think
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Speaker 3: is going to be the right formula to go win
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Speaker 3: a football game, and then kind of looking at it
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Speaker 3: and you're like, all right, this might have turned into
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Speaker 3: something a little bit different.
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Speaker 2: When I talk about being a.
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Speaker 3: Balanced offense, balance is at fifty to fifty run pass.
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Speaker 2: You've heard me say that constantly. I don't believe in that.
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Speaker 3: I believe in can you do what it takes to
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Speaker 3: win that football game, whether through the air or on
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Speaker 3: the ground special teams. Are you balanced enough to get
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Speaker 3: the job done even if what you do going into
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Speaker 3: that game doesn't necessarily work as well?
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Speaker 2: Can you shift?
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Speaker 3: I thought our coaches did a tremendous job of that.
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Speaker 3: I thought our players did a tremendous job of that.
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Speaker 3: Down fourteen nothing and you know we're in the minus
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Speaker 3: eighteen nineteen yard line. I mean, you know, those guys
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Speaker 3: could have folded their tents and went home.
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Speaker 2: I mean that's tough being down at home like that.
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Speaker 3: And I thought the explosive play got us going, you know,
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Speaker 3: sitting in quarters and putting a lot of people down
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Speaker 3: to that box. And I thought Jaylen made a nice
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Speaker 3: had a heck of a route. I think it was
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Speaker 3: a tremendous throw and a great play call. It's aggressive
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Speaker 3: because you go three and out there and you punt
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Speaker 3: right now, it could be twenty one nothing. And that's
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Speaker 3: a different story. With the largest you know, home comeback
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Speaker 3: in thirty years, I mean, I'm only responsible for eight
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Speaker 3: and a half of them, so that's all I kind
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Speaker 3: of worry about.
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Speaker 2: I don't worry about the rest of it.
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Speaker 3: But I think it just show how hard it is
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Speaker 3: and modern college football to come back from deficits.
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Speaker 2: And you know that's.
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Speaker 3: Why when we're down fourteen, I'm sure if you look
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Speaker 3: at our when we've been here, we're not probably very
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Speaker 3: good coming back. But this show is the courage of
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Speaker 3: this football team, the fight of the football team, all
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Speaker 3: the reasons I told you back in you know, January
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Speaker 3: and then April and May and June and July, how.
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Speaker 2: Much I love this football team.
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Speaker 3: I told you, I don't know what the record will be,
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Speaker 3: But I do love coaching them because they're resilient, they respond,
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Speaker 3: and those were the whole three things. We had to
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Speaker 3: have incredible how our effort had to be relentless, and
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Speaker 3: it was. They had to respond to everything. There's going
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Speaker 3: to be some mevan flows of that game that were
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Speaker 3: within our control and without our control, and you have
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Speaker 3: to respond to it, and they did. And then we
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Speaker 3: had to take care of the ball and we did.
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Speaker 3: And then we had to get the ball taken away
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Speaker 3: and we did. So when you look at that kind
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Speaker 3: of as a triangle, they did all three things and
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Speaker 3: they had the courage to believe in it and go
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Speaker 3: execute it. I mean, I said this in the postgame
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Speaker 3: press conference, if thirty more minutes of that football game
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Speaker 3: and continues to go back and forth. So you just
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Speaker 3: we found a way to make one more play than
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Speaker 3: they did. And I know they got a field goal
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Speaker 3: blocked and missed the field goal. We missed a field goal.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of things that both teams look at
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Speaker 3: at the end and say, hey, listen, we could have
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Speaker 3: played better. There were some things that we did that
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Speaker 3: were sloppy. We got iron out a lot of our
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Speaker 3: details and fundamentals and have a heck of an opponent
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Speaker 3: coming up this week.
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Speaker 1: Mentioned that is a It is a prime time kickoff
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Speaker 1: in Ohio Stadium this weekend, something Ohio State fans have
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Speaker 1: been clamoring for for a while. And you'll hear PJ.
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Speaker 1: Fleck reference that in just a second. But how are
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Speaker 1: the Gophers preparing for the noise that they're going to
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Speaker 1: face at Ohio Stadium this weekend?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Well, I know that the fans have been been asking
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Speaker 3: for a night game for three years, right, and they
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Speaker 3: got it and it's again the Gophers. So we're gonna
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Speaker 3: do everything we can to simulate it. I don't think
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Speaker 3: you can ever do that exactly, because I mean that
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Speaker 3: place is one hundred and seven thousand fans and it's deafening.
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Speaker 3: And if you that's for a noon kickoff or an
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Speaker 3: eleven am kickoff, let alone all them doing what they do,
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Speaker 3: tailgating all day and being ready for the night game
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Speaker 3: that the fans have asked for. And so we know
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Speaker 3: we're walking into a really hostile environment. We're gonna do
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Speaker 3: everything we can to recreate it and preparing it. But
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Speaker 3: our players, you're just gonna have to have incredible boys
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Speaker 3: and execute in small details and find a way just
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Speaker 3: to continue to get better and go execute the game
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Speaker 3: plan that's in front of us. But we are we
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Speaker 3: know what kind of environment we're walking into and what
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Speaker 3: type of team we're going to play.
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Speaker 2: I is defending national.
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Speaker 3: Champions and and you listen to Ryan's press conference, and
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Speaker 3: I have a ton of respect for coach Day.
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Speaker 2: I mean have a ton.
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Speaker 3: He's an incredible man first of all, and then just
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Speaker 3: a fabulous coach. But you know, I know he has
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Speaker 3: a lot of confidence in this football team that he's coaching,
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Speaker 3: and I think statistically when you look at them under
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Speaker 3: Ryan Day, I mean this statistically in the first four
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Speaker 3: games could be as best team he's ever coached, you know.
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Speaker 3: And so this is this is a really good foot
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Speaker 3: football team. So we're gonna have to play our best
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Speaker 3: football game of the year.
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Speaker 2: We know that.
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Speaker 3: But that's what's so fun about it and what a
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Speaker 3: great opportunity is for us and a great challenge at
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Speaker 3: the same time for our football team.
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Speaker 1: Ohio State just had to do the silent count thing
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Speaker 1: on the road at Washington last week due to all
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Speaker 1: the crowd noise. How often when you go on the
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Speaker 1: road as Minnesota. Do you have to do that and
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Speaker 1: how does that maybe impact things?
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Speaker 2: Well, that's going to be the challenge, right.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we do a lot of things in our
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Speaker 3: offense with double triple call, a lot of different things, right,
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Speaker 3: and so we're gonna have to work really hard and
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Speaker 3: how we're going to get that all communicated. We have
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Speaker 3: a plan for it, we just have to execute it.
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Speaker 3: The moment can't be bigger than the fundamentals and details
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Speaker 3: of your execution.
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Speaker 2: And so this is the pressure of the situation.
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Speaker 3: And we're going to Ohio Stadium, which I have a
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Speaker 3: ton of respect for what environment they create. Again, when
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Speaker 3: you work there, you appreciate it even more and they're
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Speaker 3: very passionate about their football and it's going to be
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Speaker 3: a great challenge for us, but again to our players,
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Speaker 3: a great opportunity and we'll be excited for it and
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Speaker 3: we'll be ready for it, and you know we're gonna
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Speaker 3: get of everything we got, that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: The Ohio State defense has been one of the biggest
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Speaker 1: stories in college football this year as Matt Patricia has
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Speaker 1: taken over from Jim Knowles and picked up right where
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Speaker 1: Noles left off, if not even gotten a little better.
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Speaker 1: They held Washington to just six points on Saturday. What
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Speaker 1: makes that Ohio State defense so good.
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Speaker 3: Well, they're holding opponents to five points, so Washington did
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Speaker 3: a good job, scoring one more point than what they're averaging,
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Speaker 3: So that's above average performance. They're they're really really good
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Speaker 3: at understanding how it all works. You can see how
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Speaker 3: the front seven understand how the back end works. The
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Speaker 3: back end understands how the front seven works. They work
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Speaker 3: cohesively together. They're relentless. I mean those those four guys
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Speaker 3: up front. I mean they get into some double legal
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Speaker 3: packages and they are straight up the field. I mean
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Speaker 3: Coach Johnson coaching that D line. I mean they're coming
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Speaker 3: after the quarterback and if the run happens to get
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Speaker 3: in the way, they'll tackle the run. But they're coming
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Speaker 3: after them and they do. They're relentless in their pursuit.
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Speaker 3: They're really good tacklers. They're smart. Coach Patricia does a
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Speaker 3: really good job of always keeping you guessing something different
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Speaker 3: almost every single play, and it has a little bit
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Speaker 3: of that. It has a lot of that NFL feel
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Speaker 3: to it. Every time you're at the line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 3: It's a different front. It's a different coverage. It's very challenging.
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Speaker 3: They don't allow you to ever get into a rhythm
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Speaker 3: because you're getting something different constantly, and they're really good
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Speaker 3: at it. A lot of people are afraid to do
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Speaker 3: that because that's hard to be good at a lot
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Speaker 3: of different things. But they have such good players, really
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Speaker 3: good coaches that they can do that and they're very
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Speaker 3: good at it. So that was a one possession game
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Speaker 3: going into the fourth quarter, and then you know, Ohio
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Speaker 3: State makes some plays.
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Speaker 2: But we have to be us.
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Speaker 3: We have to build the game plan according to who
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Speaker 3: we are and put ourselves in a possession to execute
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Speaker 3: at a very very high level. And if we don't
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Speaker 3: do that, it's going to be a long day. So
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Speaker 3: we have to do what we do and we've got
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Speaker 3: to have a great week of practice. We have to
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Speaker 3: have incredible attention to detail and.
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Speaker 2: Find a way to be able to.
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Speaker 3: Play one of our best games we've played this year.
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Speaker 2: That's for sure.
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Speaker 1: One of Minnesota's best players, running back Darius Taylor. He
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Speaker 1: missed the Rutgers game with a hamstring injury. They were
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Speaker 1: also down early, as I mentioned, down fourteen nothing in
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Speaker 1: the second quarter, so that could impact this stat a
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Speaker 1: little bit, but still Minnesota threw forty one passes on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: ran the ball just eighteen times. You can go back
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Speaker 1: through a whole bunch of Minnesota coaches and that is
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Speaker 1: not how they have ever really done business up in
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Speaker 1: the Twin Cities. So after so many years of being
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Speaker 1: run first, is this now maybe more of a pass
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Speaker 1: first offense?
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Speaker 3: I think if it goes back to your philosophical beliefs
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Speaker 3: as a coach one and then two, how do you
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Speaker 3: adapt to the personnel that you have with your scheme?
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Speaker 3: You know, I love to run the football. If we're
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Speaker 3: going to run the ball, I want to run the ball.
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Speaker 3: I still think we're running the ball team. I also
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Speaker 3: think we're a pass the ball team. I also think
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Speaker 3: we're a run to pass team. You've got to be
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Speaker 3: able to pass a run. I mean, you have to
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Speaker 3: be able to do those things. And I think, uh,
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Speaker 3: that's where the balance comes in. So we've also played
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Speaker 3: two games without our best players, some of our best
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Speaker 3: some of our best players, and I think that's challenging
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Speaker 3: when you don't have the depth of Uh, there's there's
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Speaker 3: not five Darius Taylor's on your team, you know, And
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Speaker 3: I think that you know there's one Darius Taylor, and
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Speaker 3: Darius Taylor goes down. I think that does impact your offense.
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Speaker 3: I'm really proud of our guys that have stepped in
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Speaker 3: and given us everything they have and getting better every
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Speaker 3: single week, and really proud of them for that. Believe
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Speaker 3: in those guys. But when you look at it, there's
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Speaker 3: a reason that Darius Taylor is Darius Taylor.
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Speaker 2: There's there's a.
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Speaker 3: Reason Max Brosmer is Max Brosmer's the reason why Shot
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Speaker 3: Batemans or Shot Bateman. They're very talented and when they're
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Speaker 3: not on the field, I think that that does change
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Speaker 3: your mindset of how you have to go win a
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Speaker 3: football game. But that doesn't mean we don't believe in
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Speaker 3: everybody else.
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Speaker 2: We do. We just have to get to it. Maybe
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Speaker 2: a little bit differently.
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Speaker 3: We wanted to run the ball a little more in
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Speaker 3: the first half against Rutgers, but we didn't. We didn't
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Speaker 3: we didn't get enough first downs to get into that rhythm.
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Speaker 3: And that was the game plan, was to come out
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Speaker 3: and throw the football and get it into the run game,
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Speaker 3: but then really run the ball a lot.
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Speaker 2: And that changed pretty quickly.
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Speaker 3: So I still believe we have core BELISSI have to
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Speaker 3: do all four of those things, as I mentioned, really
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Speaker 3: really well. But I'm always a firm believer that the
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Speaker 3: run sets up the pass. I've always believed that as
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Speaker 3: an offensive coach, and I think here at Minnesota you
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Speaker 3: gotta be good at it.
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Speaker 1: Here's a question that just about every opposing beat will
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Speaker 1: ask their head coach at the weekly press conference before
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Speaker 1: the Ohios Date game, APJ. Fleck, what kind of a
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Speaker 1: challenge does Jeremiah Smith present?
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Speaker 3: I don't know if that's the question he challenged. I
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Speaker 3: think it's what doesn't he because he is. He's fabulous.
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Speaker 3: He's a phenomenal football player. He can stretch a field vertically,
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Speaker 3: he can work in the screen game, he can work underneath.
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Speaker 3: He's got incredible control of his body in the air,
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Speaker 3: on the ground, He's lightning quick, ultra fast plays big
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Speaker 3: fifty to fifty balls or really not fifty to fifty
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Speaker 3: balls or like ninety ten balls.
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Speaker 2: You know, he's you could tell that.
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Speaker 3: You know, everybody believes in them, and they got a
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Speaker 3: lot of him around their football team, and it's a
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Speaker 3: tremendous supporting cast that allow him to be the best
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Speaker 3: player he can be.
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Speaker 2: But he does it all.
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Speaker 3: It's got great center of gravity, good contact balance when
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Speaker 3: he does have the ball in his hands, got great vision.
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Speaker 3: He's an overall he's as good as advertised, that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: And finally, this weekend's game going to be a matchup
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Speaker 1: of two quarterbacks from the twenty twenty four recruiting class,
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Speaker 1: a pair of red shirt freshmen. I'm sure you're aware
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Speaker 1: of Julian saying at Ohio State. He was the number
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Speaker 1: one quarterback in the class of twenty twenty four in
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Speaker 1: the two four to seven composite. So that's one side
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Speaker 1: of the battle. The other one red shirt freshman quarterback
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Speaker 1: Drake Lindsay from Minnesota. He's out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Called
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Speaker 1: him away from the home of the Hogs up into
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Speaker 1: the Land of Lakes. He was not the first ranked
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Speaker 1: quarterback in the class. He was the fifty sixth five
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Speaker 1: six fifty sixth ranked quarterback in the two four to
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Speaker 1: seven composite in the twenty twenty four class. So what
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Speaker 1: did he do last weekend against Rutgers? Oh, not much.
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Speaker 1: Just thirty one for forty one, three hundred and twenty
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Speaker 1: four yards, three touchdowns and no picks.
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Speaker 3: Not bad.
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Speaker 1: For a red shirt freshman. So what the PJ. Fleck
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Speaker 1: has been the most important aspect, your most impressive aspect
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Speaker 1: of Drake Lindsay's play so far this year. And you're
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Speaker 1: going to hear him mention Koy. That is Koy Perrich,
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Speaker 1: who is one of their star safeties on the team.
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Speaker 3: I think just the consistency of him every week, growing
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Speaker 3: and getting better. You know, I think that there's a
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Speaker 3: We talked about this word courage, and I said this
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Speaker 3: earlier on one of my interviews.
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Speaker 2: I said that it.
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Speaker 3: Takes a lot of courage for coaches to play freshmen,
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Speaker 3: but it takes a lot of courage from the player
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Speaker 3: as a freshman to play and play at a high level.
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Speaker 3: It takes a lot and there's a relationship on both
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Speaker 3: ends that you have to be able to trust somebody
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Speaker 3: to do that, especially eight and a half years in
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Speaker 3: your career, you know, at one place. So but I
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Speaker 3: feel like, you know, we have so much confidence in
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Speaker 3: what he does.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you saw how what the.
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Speaker 3: Confidence we had and the conversation on the headset was,
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Speaker 3: you know, we're gon we're gonna put this thing in
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Speaker 3: five hands. I mean, that's the best shot we have
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Speaker 3: to win this football game, and I thought he came.
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Speaker 2: Through, but he's used to that.
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Speaker 3: I keep saying, the greatest high school game ever watched
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Speaker 3: was Coys and his you know, and you go back
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Speaker 3: and he put the team on his shoulders in the
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Speaker 3: state championship game that I was at. He's used to that.
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Speaker 3: He likes that. It doesn't mean every time he's going
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Speaker 3: to win it and every time it's going to be
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Speaker 3: a win or a success, and he's not going to
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Speaker 3: fail and grow and he can learn, but he learns
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Speaker 3: through the failing.
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Speaker 2: He learns through the success.
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Speaker 3: He's so fun to coach, he's so coachable, He's a
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Speaker 3: really humble young man. He's got a great family. There's
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Speaker 3: so many positive things to say about him. That That's
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Speaker 3: why I told you I love coaching this team. And
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Speaker 3: it starts with the quarterback. We know he's only going
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Speaker 3: to continue to get better, but that doesn't mean he's
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Speaker 3: always going to continue to have one hundred percent success.
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Speaker 3: But we know that and that's the journey we've decided
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Speaker 3: to go through with him. So we've got a lot
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Speaker 3: of years. I got a lot of time, but the
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Speaker 3: time is now, and that's what I love about him,
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Speaker 3: he doesn't feel like I've got all this time.
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Speaker 2: Nope, every day is like the super Bowl to him.
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Speaker 3: That's the way he practices, that's the way he watches film,
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Speaker 3: that's the way he leads his football team. And I
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Speaker 3: think the team really really believes in him. And we
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Speaker 3: have a lot of young players with that type of feel.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you're starting to see what Jaylen Smith. When
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Speaker 3: I told you about Jaylen Smith, I said, how much
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Speaker 3: we believe in him. You're starting to see that come out.
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Speaker 3: There's just a lot of young players, and with young
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Speaker 3: players can development, but this is a developmental program.
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Speaker 1: There you go, and another interesting press conference, some fun
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Speaker 1: stuff there from PJ. Fleck. He was asked about the
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Speaker 1: ster at status of Darius Taylor for this weekend's game,
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Speaker 1: and he said, well, we'll all find out together two
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Speaker 1: hours before the game when the availability report comes out.
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Speaker 1: So that will be five thirty on Saturday night. Buck
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Speaker 1: guys and Gophers kicking off at seven thirty on Saturday
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Speaker 1: night game kicking off on NBC. It'd be a lovely
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Speaker 1: evening in the Horseshoe. Everyone's been looking forward to a
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Speaker 1: night game. You get another night game, two in a row.
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Speaker 1: Now this is a big ten night game, so it
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Speaker 1: should be even more fun. This is also the only
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Speaker 1: home game between the Ohio which was September thirteenth, and
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Speaker 1: the Penn State game, which is November first, so the
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Speaker 1: only home game in the span of almost a month
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Speaker 1: and a half. Crazy how this schedule worked out this
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Speaker 1: week this season, but there you go. Should be a
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Speaker 1: fun night in the Horseshoe. We will be there for that,
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Speaker 1: and we'll be there all week long giving you a
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Speaker 1: preview of the Buckeyes and the Gophers of Ross Fulton
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Speaker 1: on to talk a little bit about the Washington game.
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Speaker 1: We'll learn from that game, and we'll have much more
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Speaker 1: coverage all week long, starting with Bryan days press conference
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, all the stuff you come to know and
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Speaker 1: expect from us at Buckeye Huddle dot com and YouTube
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Speaker 1: dot com slash Buckeye Huddle. That'll do it for today.
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Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow.